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Renala Khurd Hydropower Plant
Renala Khurd Hydropower Plant (RKHPP), also known as Ganga Ram Powerhouse, and Zaheer-ud-Din Babar Powerhouse, is a small, low-head, run-of-the-river hydroelectric generation station with a capacity, located at Renala Khurd, Okara District, North-East of Punjab province of Pakistan, on the flows of Lower Bari Doab Canal. It is located about away from Lahore and away from the district capital Okara, Pakistan, Okara city towards south-west of Lahore on national highway (GT Road) and on Lahore-Karachi main railway line. Having five turbine units, each rated for production capacity, this plant was set up to meet the electricity needs of the Mitchell's, Mitchells Fruit Farms and Food Processing.http://pecongress.org.pk/images/upload/books/12-Mazhar%20Hussain.pdf History Sir Ganga Ram (1851–1927), a civil engineer and leading philanthropist of his time, established Renala Hydral Power Station in 1925, Pakistan's (Indian subcontinent's) first hydropower station. Sir Ganga Ram, engin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan Khwar Dam
The Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant is a run-of-the-river project located near the town of Besham in Shangla District on the Khan Khwar River, a right bank tributary of the Indus River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It is approximately 265 km from the federal capital of Islamabad and 350 km from provincial capital of Peshawar. The total electricity generation capacity of the Khan Khwar project is . There are two vertical Francis turbine units of 34 MW and one unit of 4 MW installed at the Khan Khwar Hydroelectric Station, with an average annual generation capacity of 595 million units (GWh) of cheap electricity. These turbines are manufactured by Dongfang Electric, Dongfang Electric Machinery Co. Ltd. The project was completed by the technical assistance of China, Chinese corporations (Sinohydro Corporation via a consortium with China Water Resources Beifang Investigation, Design and Research Co. Ltd). Construction of the Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant commence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |